| Jane Austen - 1915 - 324 страница
...command a full view of the performer's countenance 263 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Pride and Prejudice CHAPTER I IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 540 страница
...nephew of Lady Catherine dc Bourgh. MRS. REYNOLDS, Darcy's housekeeper. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE CHAPTER I IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
| Henry Holt - 1917 - 486 страница
...get off so easily before any gathering in the "regne of femynye." Still as in Jane Austen's period, "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in need of a wife." But the single woman is no longer conversely in need of the "good rich husband." The... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 356 страница
...ability to appreciate Jane Austen. She has a knack of beginning in an exhilarating, startling way on most occasions, but it may well be doubted whether any...purse in a dialogue which touches the top note of humour. Elizabeth Bennet is Jane Austen's as she is nearly every one else's favourite heroine. " I... | |
| Oscar W. Firkins - 1920 - 272 страница
...shall venture to call her legal manner. I quote again the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession .of a good fortune must be hi want of a wife." Does not one savor a "Be it known unto all men by these presents" hi the modulation... | |
| Thomas Lansing Masson - 1922 - 596 страница
...truth universally acknowledged" begins Jane Austen in the opening chapter of "Pride and Prejudice" "that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Mrs. Bennett asks Mr. Bennett if he has ever heard that Netherfield Park is to be let at last. He replies... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 страница
...if it is desired to associate with people who are really alive. JANE AUSTEN From PRIDE AND PREJUDICE gan" H 2 However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
| Léonie Villard - 1924 - 266 страница
...ear for subtle resonances the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice may lack significance : — " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This is a rapid short cut to full revelation of the opinions of the Lucases and Bennets on this subject.... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 страница
...to see his organs once more." JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) From PRIDE AND PREJUDICE An Eligible Newcomer let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a...No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er lo However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood,... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 страница
...his organs once more." JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) From PRIDE AND PREJUDICE An Eligible Newcomer IT 1s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood,... | |
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